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			<h1>It&apos;s been a long day, but somehow, I think tomorrow will be longer</h1>
			<p>Day 00190: Sunday, 2015 September 13</p>
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	This morning, my mother gave me what she thought was a driver&apos;s manual, though I don&apos;t know why she thought that was what it was.
	It was clearly titled &quot;The Oregon Guide to Teen Driving&quot;.
	I can&apos;t even consider reading the thing anyway, due to it being released under the <abbr title="Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike">CC BY-NC-SA</abbr> license, a license that prohibits commercialism, and is therefor nonfree.
	I&apos;m not even sure why it&apos;s under any license at all.
	Supposedly, it was published by the Oregon Department of Transportation, a part of the government, and should therefore fall outside of copyright.
	It should be in the public domain, not under any license at all.
	In any case, the actual driver&apos;s manual has no such mention of any licensing, and is probably in the public domain as it should be.
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	For part of the day, I worked at my mother&apos;s school to help her with her classroom, but we quickly rushed off because she wanted to go find yard sales.
	I found a telephone for only one dollar, but I had lost my money pouch.
	I would later find it at home, but it was too late by then.
	We went to the local second hand shop, where I picked up an answering machine for two dollars, but I&apos;m still missing the main telephone component to this setup.
	I&apos;m not sure what to do, I&apos;m running out of time before Tuesday, when we might have service.
	After that, we went back to the school for more classroom preparations.
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	When we got back home, my mother found an advertisement for cheaper Internet access.
	She asked me to call them up to inquire, and I had to remind her that I do not have an active telephone line.
	She got frustrated, but the truth is, with or without a telephone line, I will do whatever it takes to get out of making a telephone call.
	Telephone conversations simply irk me to no end.
	Also, truth be told, I actually do have a line of service through Cricket at the moment, but only because they do not offer tablet plans and because AT&amp;T refuses to allow a tablet plan to be used with a smartphone.
	I do not want to be reachable by telephone wherever I go, and I have all but completely disabled the telephone functionality of my device.
	I&apos;d finish disabling it, but doing so seems to also disable the data connection.
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	I looked up Frontier, the company my mother found, on the Web.
	Unfortunately, while they do have a Web presence, they do not list their prices online.
	I&apos;m going to have to spend my day tomorrow walking to see them in person just to ask about prices that I should be able to see on their website.
	I&apos;ve got better things to do than this.
	I am going to go in, and when they ask how I&apos;m doing as most businesses do, I&apos;ll tell them that I&apos;m not happy and explain the situation.
	There is no excuse for hiding their prices by omitting them from the website.
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	Yesterday, I ended up with three tsunami evacuation maps, two of which I will stash away until I need them.
	The third, I&apos;ve marked my house on and will use for navigation.
	My street is not labeled on the map, but both streets one block away have been labeled, so once I checked what streets I am between, it wasn&apos;t too hard to find my street.
	The street Frontier is on is labeled, so it won&apos;t bee to hard to find my way there.
	Still, I have to navigate my way around an unlabeled lake, and I&apos;m not sure which direction is more efficient.
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